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workers’ rights Articles

An uncertain future for workers’ rights

The government's assurances that workers' rights will be protected post-Brexit are not convincing, writes Patrick Brione Last Friday, I watched with disappointment as a series of Conservative members of parliament spoke at great length in parliament about their...

Tories have no mandate to water down workers’ rights

This week I introduced a bill to parliament, which will protect in British law the workers’ rights currently derived from the European Union. Many suggestions were made by the Leave campaign about how the country would look, should the country vote to leave the EU –...

Tackling the growing workplace sexual harassment crisis

The TUC today released a report – ‘Still just a bit of banter?’ – about sexual harassment in the workplace, showing that more than half of all women have experienced sexual harassment at work. Alarmingly, for respondents aged 18-24, this rose to around two-thirds...

The national living wage: a smokescreen for cuts?

The vote to leave the European Union a few weeks ago is a great indication that there are millions of people in our country who feel that they are being left behind, not sharing in the growing prosperity of others. And they are right. Unemployment may be down...